At 10:27 PM 4/29/98 -0800, Damon Casale wrote:

One comment about something rather important (IMHO):

	They stood, waiting.  The lab was silent, save for the Doctor's 
occasional muttering.  "Blast...no dimensional stabilizer, what was he 
thinking?  Have to use the tower as a waveguide..."  And on and on.  
"Doctor?"  Mackie ventured.  "Another hour, maybe two," he replied

without 

looking up.

<snip>

	The universe was disintegrating.  The sun had exploded, then fallen 
back in on itself almost instantly.  A sudden wave of searing heat had 
given way to freezing cold.  Worldwide, a set of earthquakes rocked the 
continents, setting up a massive chain of tsunami-size waves which

rocketed 

toward the coastlines.

<snip>

	Long before reality faded entirely, the world would have been swept 
clean of life by the massive, unnatural catastrophes.  The Doctor would 
have his hour, but little more.

An hour?  Given the speed of light and other particles, if the sun exploded
(went nova, whatever) wouldn't they have more like 8 minutes or so?

But it didn't go nova.  I expressly stated that it had exploded (eight 
minutes in the past, as you pointed out), then _immediately_ imploded upon 
itself.  If it had gone nova/red giant/whatever, then the earth would have 
been fried immediately.  But, it didn't.  It "hiccupped", for all intents 
and purposes.

I'm not an astrophysicist or an astronomer or anything like that, but it's
my understanding that when a star explodes or implodes, it's gone nova.
Sounds like the "hiccup" you're after might be a solar flare.





Jeanne Hedge

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